Here’s a handy-dandy timeline of how the fiscal-cliff drama played out over the past two months

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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

The resolution of America’s fiscal-cliff crisis, albeit a temporary fix in some regards, came exactly eight weeks after the November elections.

If the back-and-forth on this matter over these two months seems like an unpleasant blur in retrospect, you can find some clarity by clicking HERE for a timeline of developments, which includes this cast of characters (in order of their appearances): Barack Obama, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Bill Kristol, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Cole, Grover Norquist, Jay Carney, Tim Geithner, Eric Cantor, Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy....